Dickinson Public Library
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The Dickinson Area Public Library has been serving our community since January 3, 1910, when it first opened its doors and made some 1,200 volumes available to the reading public.
However, the real beginning of the library came two years earlier when a concerted local effort resulted in two particularly significant events - the approval of a coveted Andrew Carnegie grant to aid in construction of a facility and a favorable vote by the town's citizens on a mill levy to operate it.
A local committee, which included Mrs. Andrew Crawford, was formed to promote the idea of a Carnegie library. The proposal received considerable local support, as evidenced by a February 27, 1908, editorial in The Dickinson Recorder. Said the Recorder, "It will not be many years before a state normal school will be located in Dickinson and if the Davis Bill, or a bill similar to it becomes law, it will not be long until an industrial school will be located here. When these institutions come, and surely, they will come, a public library will be an imperative necessity. Let us all work together and get a library before these other good things come."
Less than a month later the community received the good news. The Andrew Carnegie Foundation had acted favorably upon the city's request for funding and was prepared to spend $10,600 to erect a library building and another $2,000 to furnish it.